Pressure was mounting on Australia's deputy prime minister Tuesday amid fresh allegations that his affair with a younger former staffer, who is pregnant with their child, breached ministerial rules.
Barnaby Joyce has been under intense scrutiny since the relationship was splashed across the front page ...

A key committee of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party intends to finalize a power transition that will see Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa take over from President Jacob Zuma, who is under pressure to resign because of corruption allegations.
The national executive committee of ...

Spain's Telecinco television channel revealed Wednesday a series of mobile phone messages written by sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to another separatist, in which he says it's likely all over for him.
The revelations, which Puigdemont did not deny, came as the Spanish government urged ...

The Philippines' top anti-corruption prosecutor on Wednesday defied an order by President Rodrigo Duterte to suspend her deputy on suspicion of leaking his bank records, accusing the Filipino leader of breaching the Constitution with the demand.
Duterte has been accused by an opposition politician of ...

In what was perhaps a make-or-break moment for their careers, comedy duo Woman Rush Hour did something on prime-time television in December that most of their fellow comedians try their best to eschew: They talked about politics.
The 5-minute-long manzai act lampooned Japan's purchase of ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating has fallen to a four-month low, a poll showed Friday, after a public backlash over a decision for South and North Korea to field a joint ice hockey team at next month's Winter Olympics.
Moon's approval rating dropped ...

Pakistan on Friday denounced Washington's decision to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in security assistance as "counterproductive" in a carefully worded response to the frustrated Trump administration's public rebuke over militant safe havens.
The United States has been threatening for months to cut aid ...

A group of multiparty lawmakers will submit to the Diet this year a bill aimed at dealing with the low representation of women in Japanese politics, which puts the country near the bottom of global rankings on the issue, political sources said Wednesday.
However, the ...

China's top legislative body decreed Wednesday that Chinese officials could enforce mainland law at a new railway station in Hong Kong, despite protests that this would erode the city's autonomy.
A high-speed railway linking Hong Kong to the sprawling southern mainland cities of Shenzhen and ...

Russia's Central Election Commission on Monday unanimously rejected top opposition figure Alexei Navalny's bid to run against President Vladimir Putin next year, leading him to urge a boycott of the polls.
The commission voted 12 to zero in barring Navalny from the presidential election, citing ...

Once the mark of criminals or sex workers, tattoos have been stigmatized in China for centuries but the growing influence of celebrity culture is changing all that — particularly for women.
Nowhere is the trend more evident than in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city and ...